Abstract / Synopsis

The aim of this survey research is to extract information
about the reading interest of and the materials used by rural
secondary school student sin Peninsular Malaysia.
The districts of Larut and Matang, Selama, and Kerian
have been selected as a sampling area. The sampling unit is
the school and the survey questionaire has been administered
to 500 student s from five selected schools, according to stratified random sampling procedure. This stratified random sampling design has been an attempt to examine, besides other
variables, the probable functional relationship between reading
interests and the materials the rural students read as well as
library utilization.
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The findings reveal that the students read regularly for
examinations and their reading tend to be confined to text books.
Rural student s also read more of reading materials in Bahasa
Malaysia than in any other languages.